Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the...

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is...

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is...

Hurting someone with the truth is better than killing them with a lie.

Hurting someone with the truth is better than killing them with a lie.